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Peale, Benjamin F. Specimens of the stone age of the human race as collected and arranged by Franklin Peale; Copied in photography with a catalogue and introduction, also various communications on the subject made by him to the American Philosophical Society. Philadelphia: 1873.

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  • Object[1,180]
  • no[1]
  • yes[1,179]
  • no[1,171]
  • yes[9]
  • american[929]
  • european[251]
  • adze haft[3]
  • animal bone[1]
  • animal bone fragment[1]
  • antler[2]
  • arrow shaft straightener[2]
  • arrowhead[400]
  • arrowhead imitation[23]
  • arrowhead imitations[1]
  • arrowheads[1]
  • awl[9]
  • axe[23]
  • bannerstone[12]
  • base sherd[1]
  • battle axe[1]
  • bead[2]
  • blade[58]
  • bladelet[8]
  • boat axe[1]
  • boat-stone[1]
  • body sherd[1]
  • book[1]
  • borer[1]
  • bunt[1]
  • cast[5]
  • celt[62]
  • chip[1]
  • chisel[13]
  • chisel haft[3]
  • cleaver[1]
  • club[1]
  • core[2]
  • dagger[2]
  • disc[2]
  • discoidal[4]
  • dish[1]
  • drill[12]
  • effigy pipe[1]
  • end scraper[13]
  • figure[1]
  • fish net[1]
  • flake[23]
  • flax[1]
  • fragment[4]
  • gorget[8]
  • gouge[2]
  • grinder[1]
  • grinding stone[5]
  • hammer[1]
  • hammer-axe[1]
  • hammerstone[19]
  • hand axe[10]
  • hand hammer[1]
  • handle[3]
  • hoe[6]
  • implement[7]
  • jasper[1]
  • knife[191]
  • lamp[4]
  • lancehead[6]
  • maul[3]
  • mortar[1]
  • muller[1]
  • nucleus (lithic)[3]
  • ornament[2]
  • pendant[3]
  • pestle[22]
  • pick[4]
  • piercer[1]
  • pipe[10]
  • pipe bowl[1]
  • plummet[1]
  • point[4]
  • pot[3]
  • pot fragment[14]
  • potsherd[5]
  • pottery[1]
  • reject[3]
  • rim sherd[6]
  • sample[1]
  • saw[1]
  • scraper[29]
  • sherd[42]
  • sherds[3]
  • side scraper[1]
  • sinker[27]
  • sledge hammer[3]
  • socket[5]
  • socket fragment[1]
  • spearhead[28]
  • spindle whorl[1]
  • splinter[7]
  • stag horn[1]
  • stone fragment[1]
  • tablet[2]
  • tool[7]
  • tool haft[1]
  • wall[1]
  • war club blade[9]
  • whetstone[8]
  • workshop fragment[10]
  • abbeville[17]
  • adams county (mississippi)[7]
  • annapolis[2]
  • anne arundel county[2]
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  • bern canton[12]
  • bloody run[2]
  • bridlington parish[2]
  • bucks county[6]
  • california (state)[4]
  • camden (new jersey)[3]
  • camden county[3]
  • cecil county[6]
  • chester county[3]
  • columbia (new jersey)[3]
  • columbia (new york)[2]
  • connecticut[6]
  • county down[2]
  • crane's neck[3]
  • delaware[12]
  • delaware county (pennsylvania)[2]
  • delaware valley[3]
  • delaware water gap[546]
  • denmark[5]
  • derbyshire[4]
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  • eastern united states[48]
  • easton[2]
  • england[110]
  • fairfax county[7]
  • france[37]
  • fulton county (pennsylvania)[3]
  • gallatin county[5]
  • georgia[2]
  • greenland[5]
  • hammonasset[3]
  • herkimer county[2]
  • hunterdon county[7]
  • illinois[6]
  • ireland[5]
  • lake biel[2]
  • lake moosseedorf[10]
  • lake neuchatel[44]
  • lake pfaffikon[3]
  • lake zurich[21]
  • lambertville[7]
  • little falls of the potomac[6]
  • maryland[8]
  • menchecourt[3]
  • mercer county[3]
  • mexico (central america)[12]
  • michigan[2]
  • mississippi[7]
  • missouri[42]
  • monroe county (pennsylvania)[534]
  • montgomery county (pennsylvania)[3]
  • moosseedorf[10]
  • natchez (mississippi)[7]
  • new hope[6]
  • new jersey[53]
  • new york[5]
  • north america[687]
  • north riding[47]
  • northampton county[2]
  • ohio[3]
  • ontonagon[2]
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  • pahaquarrie[2]
  • pennsylvania[617]
  • philadelphia[38]
  • philadelphia county[38]
  • pickering[47]
  • portelette[3]
  • robenhausen[3]
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  • saint-acheul[8]
  • sandy springs[22]
  • scandinavia[8]
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  • schwyz canton[9]
  • smith sound[5]
  • smithfield (pennsylvania)[7]
  • somme[37]
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  • valley of mexico[2]
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  • westmoreland county[3]
  • yorkshire[49]
  • zurich[12]
  • zurich canton[15]
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  • mound builder[2]
  • neolithic[213]
  • shawnee[15]
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  • arctic culture area[5]
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  • north american culture area[1]
  • northeast culture area[884]
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  • southwest culture area[1]
  • " found in the peat with vases of celtic manufacture."[1]
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  • "from a grave"[1]
  • "riverside"[3]
  • at mouth of the tiniere villeneuve[1]
  • banks of connecticut river[2]
  • banks of the river[1]
  • barrow[2]
  • barrow?[2]
  • branch of little sioux r.[1]
  • celtic sepulture, beneath peat layer[1]
  • found at a depth of 50 cm. in "gallin layer"[1]
  • from peat "sepulture celtique"[1]
  • greshon lambert's farm[1]
  • laurel hill cemetery, late the seat of g. pepper, esq.[1]
  • likely indian village located today at laurel hill cemetery[1]
  • little creek neck[1]
  • mouth of cherry creek[1]
  • mr. snider's garden[1]
  • near pine grove[1]
  • near washington d.c.[1]
  • on the brandywine. found on the battlefield[1]
  • peat[1]
  • peat "celtique"[2]
  • peat layer[4]
  • shoemaker's ferry[1]
  • steinberg = stone hill[1]
  • swatara furnace[1]
  • tomb[1]
  • turf of peat layer[1]
  • valley of the somme[9]
  • van campen's island[2]
  • zimmerman's farm[2]
  • geometric motif[1]
  • wolf head[1]
  • agate[1]
  • animal bone[2]
  • antler[2]
  • basalt[1]
  • bone[22]
  • buffalo hide[1]
  • catlinite[1]
  • ceramic[18]
  • chalcedony[41]
  • chlorite[1]
  • clay[48]
  • deer bone[1]
  • fiber[1]
  • flax[1]
  • flint[161]
  • glass[7]
  • gneiss[4]
  • granite[7]
  • horn (animal part)[1]
  • hornblende[1]
  • hornstone[10]
  • jasper[18]
  • limestone[4]
  • obsidian[15]
  • paper[1]
  • plaster[4]
  • quartz[1]
  • quartzite[4]
  • red jasper[1]
  • sandstone[15]
  • serpentine[14]
  • slate[10]
  • stag bone[1]
  • stag horn[16]
  • steatite[10]
  • stone[732]
  • terracotta[1]
  • trap rock[8]
  • yellow jasper[3]
  • yew[1]
  • chipped[1]
  • incised[5]
  • notched[2]
  • unfinished[1]
  • franklin peale[10]
  • john mcilvaine[1]
  • yes[1,180]

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